Vocabulary #4-6

Circle the pair of words that best complete the meaning of the sentence.

In the third century, bands of savage barbarians repeatedly broke through the frontier defenses of the Roman province of Gaul, ______ the countryside with fire and sword, and either slew or carried off the _______.

• scanned... partisans

• pacified... vagabonds

• devastated... inhabitants

• blighted... oracles

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Circle the pair of words that best complete the meaning of the sentence.

The defense was able to _____ the prosecution's case so convincingly that the jury _____ the defendant after only five minutes of deliberation.

• devastate... befuddled

• refute... acquitted

• topple... discredited

• bungle... reimbursed

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

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The TV special not only brought in huge sums of money to help relieve the _____ of millions of Africans suffering from the effects of a severe famine but also _____ a great deal of sympathy for them.

• setback... induced

• plight... generated

• duration... deemed

• strife... conserved

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Circle the pair of words that best complete the meaning of the sentence.

"The Scholar Gypsy" tells the tale of a poor student who left school to join a band of _____. He and his companions roamed the countryside endlessly, never _____ in one place for long.

• inhabitants... deeming

• debutantes... vacating

• partisans... generating

• vagabonds... tarrying

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

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When the new government came to power, its first order of business was to _____ a country that had been torn by _____ and revolution for over ten years.

• pacify.... strife

• topple... ingratitude

• strand... fidelity

• conserve... remorse

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

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"I want to maintain ____ to the book in bringing this story to the screen," the director instructed the scriptwriter. "However, I recognize that one has to have a little _____ when translating print to film."

• clarity... synopsis

• fidelity... leeway

• strife... facet

• partisan... commentary

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Click the word that best defines the red word in the sentence.

The fellow is so off-putting and mean that I am sure he must count his enemies by the gross.

• total

• twelve dozen

• weight

• score

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Click the word that best defines the red word in the sentence?

At Dunkirk in the spring of 1940, an armada of warships and civilian craft evacuated hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers from the norther french strand, where they had been pinned by the German army.

• shore

• fiber

• abandonment

• battle

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Click the word that best defines the red word in the sentence?

The commentator's petty evaluation of the election results betrays a woeful ignorance of American political history.

• unimportant

• minor

• narrow-minded

• insignificant

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Click the word that best defines the red word in the sentence?

Skyscrapers of the 1930s, such as the Empire State Building in New York, typically are crowned with setbacks that lead like steps to a spire at the summit.

• defeats

• reversals

• dissapointments

• recesses

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4